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I would very much like to see medical care placed into the goverments hands (in the U.S) so that it can emulate Canada, the U.K. and other countries that use the socialist medical care system.

At least people can afford to live in that system.

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Do you really want to trust the same people who run a screwed up health care system to be poking around in your organs?

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Doctors really aren't usually the ones running health care. That honor falls to politicians.

—Alorael, who doesn't know if you feel comfortable with doctors poking around in your organs. He personally doesn't, but that's because he finds organ poking inherently uncomfortable. If someone has to do it, he'd rather it were a doctor.

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Originally written by Arancaytar:

People don't kill people, Wikipedia kills people.

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I would very much like to see medical care placed into the goverments hands (in the U.S) so that it can emulate Canada, the U.K. and other countries that use the socialist medical care system.

At least people can afford to live in that system.

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Originally written by Mythrael:

i don't believe that the game consumes so much power as to prevent computers running it smoothly, and a huge battle would be fun, though it may last for hours and your character may not have a very important part in such a battle.

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Originally by Nalyd:

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One cannot control the mindless.

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...unless you're Akhari Blaze.

(Randomizer, take note. :P )

Dikiyoba.

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Originally written by Iffy:

If you gotta do it, DO IT IN YOUR HOME/HOME BATHROOM! I don't get why people would do it in a public place.

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Well, it's kind of hard to explain to your wife if she walks in on you at home.

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Originally written by Excalibur:

The ACLU cracks me up. Civil rights groups almost seem silly these days.

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If you want to talk about things that are silly, how about sending police officers to camp out for hours in public toilets waiting for someone to make sexual advances toward them? Surely they have better things to do.

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The only thing that can save the world is if society brings its focus to saving world instead of blissfully hoping someone else will.

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Please re-read this sentence until you can tell me why it's so silly.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

I don't see you bringing about world peace either. Just because science can't solve a problem, doesn't mean something else can.

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Alec said: "But my opposite number in this discussion is trafficking in the banal and the impossible"

Hmm, to claim that a thing is impossible is to claim to have proven a negative, is it not? Are you confident you can make the claim that you have proof that it is impossible that there is a spiritual dimension to being human? Because you're talking again like everything you believe must be fact...by what virtue, I wonder? Because you believe it, and therefore it must be correct? Please demonstrate how you have proof of a negative.

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Originally written by Lepus timidus:

Why don't we see the humans defecating in Geneforge?

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Don't buy shares yet.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I tend to agree with Alec's claim that mainstream medicine actually thinks quite widely, and rejects things on solid empirical evidence rather than from purblind prejudice. And it is obvious that modern medicine can do wonderful things.

But it doesn't hurt, or even really weaken that case, to admit that medical science is still in its early infancy. We really know very little about how human biochemistry works. And we know almost nothing at all about how neurochemistry works to produce psychological phenomena. We're about as far from having a really scientific psychiatry as those ancient Greeks and Chinese, with their static-charged amber and hunks of magnetized iron, were from building laptop computers.

Or maybe further; who knows? I'm optimistic that the pace of scientific research has accelerated so much since then, that significant progress may come over decades rather than centuries. But there is clearly a long way to go yet.

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Originally written by Ephesos:

(reads character intros)

Yipe. Erm... this is... well, odd.

Buckshot's character is definitely anorexic. And... well, this is all very odd. I feel like it looks a bit like SoT's thought experiment about what one of these SW-centric RPs might look like.

Safey, personally I'd like to see you play a non-magic character at some point in the future. Even better, a non-magic good-aligned character. Just food for thought.

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